COIMBATORE: City Corporation commissioner S Ganesh was on an inspection to corporation schools when he found that a Class 10 student at a civic body run school struggled to read the word 'teacher'. There are two papers of English for Class 10 board exams.

Smriti Irani, all of 38, was a surprise choice for the heavyweight HRD ministry. And 100 days into her job and a few controversies later, she is resigned to the idea that she will continue to attract controversies because of her stardom. But none of that would take her attention away from all the promises made in BJP manifesto. Excerpts from an interview with ET.

This short film released by the Press Information Bureau, Government of India on 11 September 2014 is a quick snapshot of the various initiatives of the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Four years after it became an Act and a year of implementation later, it is becoming very clear that the Right to Education Act (RTE) is deeply flawed. The Act was called a sieve by this author in this very publication in 2010, and much of what was predicted has come to pass. It was a significant piece of social re-engineering where the intent was to bring the rich and the poor to the same classroom. The RTE Act was a daring piece of legislation for two reasons.

The 86th Constitutional Amendment Act 2002 makes education a Fundamental Right for children in the age group of 6-14 years by stating "the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the State may, by law, determine". The Act further provides under Article 51-A (k) that it shall be a fundamental duty of every citizen of India who is a parent or guardian to provide opportunities for education to his child between the age of six and fourteen years.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is facing an acute shortage of teachers to teach science and mathematics in schools. Worried over the situation, the state government has urged the Centre to relax the minimum qualification for recruitment of teachers as stipulated by the Right to Education (RTE) Act. The state government has been in a fix over recruitment of teachers in schools as the number of trained teachers produced in the state is very low compared to the requirement, official sources said.